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Rulers may not take life as freely as God, because though they are God's ministers they are only men
Drawn from what Blaise Pascal said
What Blaise Pascal actually said
- Blaise Pascal French mathematician and philosopher (1623 to 1662)
Earthly potentates, however, are not at liberty to act in this manner; for, though the ministers of God, still they are but men, and not gods.
Where this was said
↗The Provincial Letters (tr. Thomas M'Crie, 1856)gutenberg.org
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